Wiper Motor and a few gauges,

Today I rebuilt the wiper motor and its mechanism for my BN1. This is the original one for the car dated for November 1953, and its number was even recorded in my cars Heritage build certificate.

I started by taking it apart in sub assemblies and cleaning and restoring each sub section. Starting with the wiper gear mechanisms and the long worm gear arm that connects them...

Followed by the main body and motor... 
I cleaned out all the old grease, and carefully polished all the zinc plated metal parts. 
Then I added some fresh grease as I reassembled the mechanical parts.

For the electric motor I simply cleaned and inspected everything. Polished the Bakelite top casing.

Finally I refinished the outer body in black wrinkle finish and reassembled everything with fresh grease on all the gear mechanisms..

I finished the day by cleaning and refurbishing the 2 smaller dash gauges for the fuel, oil and water. After carefully opening them up, I thoroughly cleaned everything. I repainted the black outer rims that were starting to flake off, and even repainted the tiny needles white as the original paint was flaking off of those too..  Fun stuff when it all goes well!

Finally this morning I finished refurbishing the brake fluid reservoir by adding the new decal to finish it off..

until next time...